Re: OT: Worcestershire sauce

Quoting Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>:

> There's something fishy going on here. The fact that the article Padraic
> gave said that most pica was found in non-Western cultures should have been
> a clue. It seems that pica means more exactly "the eating of substances we
> Westerners don't find acceptable" :))) .
While that's an perfectly possible interpretation, I'd like to point out that
most cultures are "non-Western", and that something occurs primarily in non-
Western cultures really means little more than that is unusual in Western
cultures.

Now, I'm not really suspecting Christophe of this, but the tendency to think of
all non-Western cultures as essentially the same is not appreciably less common
in the intercultural exchanage and understanding brigade than among Western
supremacists.

                                               Andreas

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